R. E. Munn

R. E. (Ted) Munn (1919 - 7 September 2013) was a Canadian climatologist^[1] and meteorologist.

Early life and education

Munn was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba,^[2] and is a grandson of Stuart Jenkins, a well-known writer in the 1890s for Scientific American. Jenkins' frequent lectures about natural sciences helped develop Munn's interest in the inductive sciences, which he studied at McMaster University.

Career

Upon graduation in 1941, Munn became a weather forecaster, spending 1943 to 1949 in Gander, Newfoundland where he briefed Ferry Command and other wartime pilots on their way to Britain.^[3]

In the late 1950s, Ted registered as a PhD student at the University of Michigan. At the time of his graduation in the early 1960s, he was the only Canadian meteorologist with training in air pollution. He served on several international committees, including WMO and ICSU. He spent a winter in Stockholm working with Bert Bolin on the acid rain issue, and for 17 years he was editor-in-chief of the SCOPE series of 60 books relating to interdisciplinary environmental topics.^[4][5][6]

In 1983, he was appointed head of the environmental group at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.^[7] Then in 1990, he returned to the University of Toronto, to the Institute of Environmental Studies,^[8] where he taught a course on Global Environment Change, and edited a 5-volume Encyclopedia, Global Environmental Change (John Wiley, UK.) Each volume is about 750 pages in length.^[7]

Munn is the founder of the Journal Boundary Layer Meteorology.^[9]

Munn was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1985^[10] and he has published several books and many scientific articles on environmental topics.

Publications

• Ted Munn, ed. (2002). The Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change. Wiley.^[11]
• Ted Munn (1973). Global Environmental Monitoring Systems (GEMS): Action Plan for Phase I. ICSU-SCOPE.
• R.E. Munn; J.W.M. la Rivière; N. van Lookeren Campagne (31 July 1996). Policy Making in an Era of Global Environmental Change. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-0-7923-3872-7.
• R. E. Munn; John R. Garratt; P.A. Taylor (30 September 1996). Boundary-Layer Meteorology 25th Anniversary Volume, 1970–1995: Invited Reviews and Selected Contributions to Recognise Ted Munn's Contribution as Editor Over the Past 25 Years. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-0-7923-4191-8.

References

1. John L. Riley (2013). The Once and Future Great Lakes Country: An Ecological History. McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 282–. ISBN 978-0-7735-4177-1.
2. Eric Taylor; Ann McMillan (30 October 2013). Air Quality Management: Canadian Perspectives on a Global Issue. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 29–. ISBN 978-94-007-7557-2.
3. http://alumni.os.mcmaster.ca/s/1439/index2.aspx?sid=1439&gid=1&pgid=1668
4. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/environmental-development/news/in-memoriam-munn/
5. Robert E. Hinshaw (2006). Living with Nature's Extremes: The Life of Gilbert Fowler White. Big Earth Publishing. pp. 258–. ISBN 978-1-55566-388-9.
6. Steven F. Bernstein (January 2001). The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism. Columbia University Press. pp. 260–. ISBN 978-0-231-12037-1.
7. http://www.library.utoronto.ca/iip/journal/Profiles/munn.htm
8. Annals. College = Le Collège. 1993.
9. Cornelis Dirk Andriesse (2008). Dutch Messengers: A History of Science Publishing, 1930-1980. BRILL. pp. 236–. ISBN 90-04-17084-7.
10. "R. Munn". Royal Society of Canada.
11. R. K. Pachauri; Luc Gnacadja; Hans Günter AFES-PRESS; Michael Zammit Cutajar, Achim Steiner, Navnita Chadha Behera, Sàlvano Briceno, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Joy Ogwu, Stavros Dimas, Vandana Shiva, John Grin, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Béchir Chourou, Czeslaw Mesjasz, Heinz Krummenacher (4 June 2009). Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 42–. ISBN 978-3-540-68488-6. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)